Word: analysts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...submitted to the Civil Service Commission, where it often sinks out of sight. To get rid of incompetents, managers steer them to what are called "turkey farms," offices where nothing much is required and little damage can be done. The bureaucracy is studded with these farms, which a HUD analyst claims can be spotted on sight. "Just walk down the halls," he says. "You'll see lots of zombies...
Delda H. White, assistant director of the Radcliffe Forum, said yesterday the organization hopes to sponsor at least 11 students next month and several more during the summer in volunteer jobs that will range from working with a security analyst in Boston to assisting a city planner in Palo Alto, Calif., to spending a few weeks with a science fiction writer in Ireland...
Benjamin Rosen, chief microelectronics analyst for New York's Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, sees the chips as the major technological development of our time. Says he: "It will have more impact on our society in the next 20 years than any other invention...
...miles of taped transmissions. The U.S. can scarcely complain; some 4,000 Americans employed by the National Security Agency, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and secret private contractors are doing exactly the same thing. Both Soviet and American technicians use advanced computers programmed to react to trigger words; a Soviet analyst, for instance, might sit up straight on coming upon words like Cobra Dane, a new radar installation in the Aleutians, or Trident, the giant U.S. submarine now under construction...
...Lavrenti Beria to join the ruling Politburo. Andropov, 63, is said to admire modern art and to be a witty conversationalist who speaks fluent English-a portrait that contrasts with his harsh actions as Moscow's Ambassador to Hungary during the 1956 uprising. Under Andropov, says one Western analyst, "the thugs are being weeded...